Camille Claudel was a late-19thc. French sculptor, a woman of a particular time and place and medium. But she had much in common with women artists throughout history. Many women would never have had artistic training without the support of fathers who were proud of their daughters’ seemingly anomalous talent. Artemisia Gentileschi’s father, a Renaissance humanist who believed that women possessed intellect as well as souls, hired a tutor for her. That support for their feisty, income-earning daughters often dissipated when it came time to marry, however. Even the proudest father… Read More
